Scheeps-togt van Pedro da Nhaya na Oost-Indien, met een vloot van 8 scheepen, in het jaar 1505 en vervolg...

1505
1505 Description of its inhabitants

„In general, this race of people is black with frizzy hair, but of more understanding than the others who live toward the side of Mozambique, Quiloa, or Melinde, among whom one finds many man-eaters, who kill animals in order to drink their blood and sustain themselves with it. The subjects of Benomotapa worship only one God, called Mozimo by them; they have no idols nor statues to which they show any divine honor. And since the Negroes, their neighbors, are very inclined toward idolatry and witchcraft, nothing is punished more strictly among them than this act, not so much because of the religion as because they hold these things to be very harmful to the life and well-being of the people, such that those who are caught with this sickness must all undergo death. Two crimes held equally
Their religion.

Adultery and theft considered very heavy crimes among them.

„heavy among these people are adultery and theft, it being enough among them to be judged an adulterer that one speaks to someone's wife; these two shall immediately be put to trial for that crime. Meanwhile, everyone may have as many wives as he desires and can maintain, although the first always remains the most prominent, all the others being subservient, and her own children the heirs, as being the firstborn.
Ceremony of young daughters.

„No daughter is marriageable among them before she has had her period, since she is then capable of conceiving: also, the day when she comes to get this for the first time is spent with great joy.
Religion regarding the days of the moon.

„Of 2 things they make a religious work: of the days and of their death. The days of the moon, such as the first, sixth, seventh, eleventh, sixteenth, seventeenth, twentieth, and twenty-eighth, which is the birthday of their King: further they make another